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There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.

Ronald Reagan

President · American · 1911 – 2004

Growth is never by mere chance; it is the result of forces working together.

James Cash Penney

Businessman · American · 1875 – 1971

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.

Alfred North Whitehead

Mathematician · English · 1861 – 1947

Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

Benjamin Disraeli

Statesman · British · 1804 – 1881

If a person with a bullet in Dallas can change the world, imagine a person with an idea could do.

J. Michael Straczynski

Producer · American · b. 1954

We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.

Eric Hoffer

Writer · American · 1902 – 1983

A real idea keeps changing and appears in many places.

Mason Cooley

Writer · American

I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment.

Henri Bergson

Scientist · French · 1859 – 1941

Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.

George Orwell

Author · British · 1903 – 1950

You may not be able to change a situation, but with humor you can change your attitude about it.

Allen Klein

Businessman · American · b. 1931

One of the most important things to remember about infant care is: don't change diapers in midstream.

Don Marquis

Poet · American · 1878 – 1937

Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.

Blaise Pascal

Philosopher · French · 1623 – 1662

Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble. Good news weakens me.

Charles Kettering

Inventor · American · 1876 – 1958

In order to change unwanted habits and actions, it is important to take the time to get to know yourself.

Darren L. Johnson

Author · American

In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up - or else we all go down.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

President · American · 1882 – 1945

I think it's naive to pray for world peace if we're not going to change the form in which we live.

Godfrey Reggio

Director · American · b. 1940

Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.

W. Somerset Maugham

Playwright · British · 1874 – 1965

Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have.

Margaret Mead

Scientist · American · 1901 – 1978

A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

Margaret Mead

Scientist · American · 1901 – 1978

I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country.

Tony Blair

Statesman · English · b. 1953

He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft.

James Russell Lowell

Poet · American · 1819 – 1891

The English countryside, its growth and its destruction, is a genuine and tragic theme.

E. M. Forster

Novelist · English · 1879 – 1970

Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two.

Marcel Proust

Author · French · 1871 – 1922

Most people already know what they're doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.

Joel Osteen

Clergyman · American · b. 1963

We must become the change we want to see in the world.

Mohandas Gandhi

Leader · Indian · 1869 – 1948

A free culture has been our past, but it will only be our future if we change the path we are on right now.

Lawrence Lessig

Educator · American · b. 1961

You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Les Brown

Businessman · American

As sure as the spring will follow the winter, prosperity and economic growth will follow recession.

Bo Bennett

Businessman · American · b. 1972

Working on the film really made me confront my opinions about change and gentrification.

Jim McKay

Journalist · American · b. 1921

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

Mohandas Gandhi

Leader · Indian · 1869 – 1948

That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general society.

Charles Dickens

Novelist · English · 1812 – 1870

Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors.

Emile M. Cioran

Philosopher · Romanian · b. 1911

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

William S. Burroughs

Writer · American · 1914 – 1997

Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.

David Herbert Lawrence

Writer · English · 1885 – 1930

We can't change anything until we get some fresh ideas, until we begin to see things differently.

James Hillman

Psychologist · American

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Barack Obama

President · American · b. 1961

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Mohandas Gandhi

Leader · Indian · 1869 – 1948

I argue in this paper that we are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth.

Vernor Vinge

Writer · American · b. 1944

Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.

Hunter S. Thompson

Journalist · American · 1937 – 2005

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

William Feather

Author · American · 1889 – 1981

Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness.

Titus Livius

Historian · Roman

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

Jim Rohn

Businessman · American

I don't write for any group. I write to bring about a change in consciousness.

Jeanette Winterson

Novelist · British · b. 1959

If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?

Chuck Palahniuk

Novelist · American · b. 1961

Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.

Wendell Phillips

Activist · American · 1811 – 1884

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Statesman · Roman

Loss means losing what was We want to change but we don't want to lose. Without time for loss, we don't have time for soul.

James Hillman

Psychologist · American

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

George Bernard Shaw

Dramatist · Irish · 1856 – 1950

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